Lorenz Zahneisen, former mayor of Bamberg and district chief of the Nazi Party, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for participating in the notorious pogroms of Nov. 10, 1938. Eighteen other defendants in Bamberg received prison sentences ranging from six months to two years.
Police officials in Hanover have arrested the former Gestapo captain, Hanz Hermann Wiering, on charges of mass murder of Jews in the Riga ghetto. Wiering was in command of the “Aktion Mord,” where during three days an estimated 60,000 Jews were annihilated.
F. Weinig, former Gestapo lieutenant who was found guilty by a court in Kaiserlautern of assaulting a Jewish physician in 1938, was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
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